Some sites don't work with Firefox (FC3)?

[Chuck_Sterling]

Dave wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 05:34 pm, John Cox wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:28:18 -0800, Dave <fedora-user at nospam.dnsalias.org> 
> 
> wrote:
> 
>>>OK, here's an interesting glitch I have no clue about. Several websites I
>>>tried today don't like Firefox. Trying to access www.sfbc.com (Science
>>>Fiction Book Club), I get "Bad request. Your browser sent a query this
>>>server could not understand."  Trying to get to www.woodline.com (router
>>>bits), I get just plain "Bad request"
> 
> 
>>I just got both with no problem.
> 
> 
> Very interesting ... I just found another one.  My bank's web banking page 
> tells me I must use a browser with javascript enabled ... but javascript IS 
> enabled. And I can't find anywhere in the preferences how to change which 
> browser string Firefox returns.
> 
> I'm running FC3, no updates. Fresh install. No browser extensions or anything 
> funky installed yet. On a whim, I enabled popup windows to see if that 
> affected anything. Nope.
> 
> FC3 hates me. My sound card won't work. Shutdown doesn't work. mp3's wouldn't 
> work. My USB thumbdrive locks up the USB subsystem. One thing at a time, 
> though ... have to be able to browse ...
> 

Perhaps you should consider updating the entire distribution, if you 
have not already done so. I was able to browse to www.sfbc.com with no 
problem; did not check the other. I'm currently using FF 1.0. Before 
updating the distro, there were enough problems that I eventually gave 
up and went back to core 2 until I got DSL and could get the core 3 
update done overnight...

Chuck